I have been running Dolphin 3.0 on my computer (a 13-inch MacBook Pro using OS X Lion) where it was working just fine for about a week or so, and I was using it to play the GameCube version of Animal Crossing.

However, all of a sudden, every time I open Dolphin it's "not responding" (even if I just want to change settings for it, much less if I want to open a game). It's really frustrating, and I'm wondering what else I'm going to have to do besides uninstall it. It goes to "not responding" almost immediately after opening it, so I can't change anything about it in the settings. to try to fix the problem. I always end up having to Force Quit it from Apple logo menu.

I really don't want to uninstall, though, because I want to keep my Animal Crossing data. Is there any way I can try to fix this problem without erasing my memory card?